Letter: Abortion is the root cause of our killing culture

Since Roe vs. Wade, approximately 60 million U.S. human conceptions each destined to become a child excepting miscarriage, have been aborted from the safety of their mothers' wombs. Is this not the cornerstone of the vast devaluation of life?

How may high school students have used the services of abortion sites? While the actual student abortion numbers are not recorded, I offer the following math (see Guttmacher):

Extrapolating the demographic percentages against the approximately 60 million abortions computes to 6,600,000. Adjusting for the female drop-out rate of 5.4 percent reduces the numbers to 96,380 and 5,782,822 respectively. Additionally, bls.gov states that 66.7 percent of all the 2.9 million 2017 high school graduate students enrolled in college and 71.7 percent of the females enrolled (1,039,650).

With the abortion rate for ages 20-24 at 34 percent of the nearly 1 million abortions performed annually, certainly many more come from those students.

When a gun-related murder occurs at a school, the whole world immediately knows about it. Yet, as these millions of student abortions take place, how many of their fellow students silently learn about same, and share the secret of these abortions? Think about how the number of students who come to know abortion as a common occurrence can grow, and how students can easily become desensitized and numbed to the snuffing out of lives.

This is clearly the rooted reality, secretly and silently exceeding any other of the many generalized causes often mentioned. The killing of nearly 1 million unborn human beings a year can no longer be justified as simply private acts and health issues. As hearts and minds change, Roe will be overturned.